Spen Valley (UK Parliament constituency)

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Spen Valley constituency
Created:	1885
Abolished:	1950
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Spen Valley was a parliamentary constituency in the valley of the River Spen in West Yorkshire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 History 2 Boundaries 3 Members of Parliament 4 Elections 5 See also 6 References

[edit] History

The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election.

[edit] Boundaries

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
1885		constituency established
	1885	Joseph Woodhead
	1892	Sir Thomas Palmer Whittaker	Coalition Liberal
	1919	Thomas Myers	Labour
	1922	Sir John Simon	Liberal
	1931		National Liberal
	1940	William Edward Woolley	National Liberal
	1945	Granville Maynard Sharp	Labour
1950		constituency abolished

[edit] Elections

[edit] See also

• Spenborough

[edit] References

• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.